Fine Motor Work and Tasty Exploration

Found an activity they did together.  MD practiced something he hadn't done in a long time.  Screwing and unscrewing bottles of different sizes.  He can now do this pretty well....SE tasted the bottles.

Homemade Baby Food

Making homemade baby food is one of the easiest things in the world.  SE is now eating lots of new things and I have been busy making him food.  It is as simple as steaming a veggie or pealing a fruit and then pureeing it.  Then scoop some into ice cube containers and freeze. 

Once it's good and frozen transfer into plastic freezer bags and label.  When it's time to eat I just get a cube or two out, or a combination and defrost, and lunch is ready!

Here is SE eating some steamed and pureed brocolli. ☺

Homemade Rattles

Here are some homemade baby rattles.  One made out of an empty and washed plastic spice jar and the other made out of a breast milk storage container that I recieved as a sample from the hospital.  The spice container has plastic beads, googly eyes, pompoms, and pipe cleaners.  The other has colored rice.  Both were sealed with a glue gun.  I'm a little scared SE will somehow pull open the rice one so I only rattle it for him from a distance.  I have tried pulling it apart myself and it seems to be a very tight seal, but you can never be too careful with babies.